God always looks after the fools and — and the United States.

Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others.

We Germans fear God, but nothing else in the world; and it is the fear of God, which lets us love and foster peace.

The most significant event of the 20th century will be the fact that the North Americans speak English.

Not even the King himself has the right to subordinate the interests of his country to his own feelings of love or hatred towards strangers; he is, however, responsible towards God and not to me if he does so, and therefore on this point I am silent.

The government should cultivate the view also among the propertyless classes of the population, those who are the most numerous and the least educated, that the state is not only an institution of necessity but also of welfare. By recognizable and direct advantages they must be led to look upon the state not as an agency devised solely for the protection of the better-situated classes of society but also as one serving their needs and interests.

Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death.